Music is an outburst of the soul. ~Frederick Delius
Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. ~Oscar Wilde
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. ~Robert G. Ingersoll
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. ~Alphonse de Lamartine
There is in souls a sympathy with sounds:
And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased
With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave;
Some chord in unison with what we hear
Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.
~William Cowper
When words leave off, music begins. ~Heinrich Heine
Truly to sing, that is a different breath. ~Rainer Maria Rilke
Music is the shorthand of emotion. ~Leo Tolstoy
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together. ~Anais Nin
There is no truer truth obtainable
By Man than comes of music.
~Robert Browning
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die. ~Paul Simon
Music, when soft voices die
Vibrates in the memory -
~Percy Bysshe Shelley
Engender fury, kindle love,
With unsuspected eloquence can move,
And manage all the man with secret art.
~Joseph Addison
My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip his spiritual struggle. ~Liberace
Music that gentlier on the spirit lies,
Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
~Alfred Lord Tennyson
Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. ~Ronald Reagan
The discovery of song and the creation of musical instruments both owed their origin to a human impulse which lies much deeper than conscious intention: the need for rhythm in life… the need is a deep one, transcending thought, and disregarded at our peril. ~Richard Baker
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard, Comments of Abe Martin and His Neighbors, 1923
It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible. ~Victor de LaPrade
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. ~Jean Paul Richter